Re: December Staff Meeting Podcast Great Podcast. Loved putting voices to names. (Randy should work at a radio station with his voice!)
Sorry I couldn't be part of the discussion. I'm sure I will participate in future ones.
Here's some of my input... It's in the order that things were spoken about.
1. I really enjoyed hearing my name pronounced in 3 different ways. Some of them I even liked more than my real name and you guys got my to thinking about changing it...
Anywhoo, my name is Zvi Twersky. The zvit alias is "zvi" for my first name and "t" for my last name, hence, zvit. Zvi is pronounced Tzvi (tsvee)
2. The application: Like Mike said... people that are "power hungry", will answer 200 questions too. So the number of questions will not reveal power seekers. Questions that can only be answered correctly after reading the rules are a good idea. A suggestion can be to add an option after each question that allows you to choose "I prefer not to answer this question". If he chooses this on every question that has to do with the rules... that should tell you something. It has other advantages too. Another suggestion would be to add a comment field so in case there is a tricky question (there were a few that I wanted to add a comment to my answer but didn't have that option).
Overall, the questioner was fine and I support the fact of 50 questions because effort shows seriousness. My father charges $300 for a first session and $180 for every other one. He told me that the reason is that it shows seriousness in one's will to accept treatment. (He's a psychologist). I didn't mind the personal information questions. Asking my shoe-size would be weird but your questions were fine.
3. Winter in Israel is usually the same months as in the States. December - February are the coldest months. (Actually, this year is the first December in history that Israel had not had rain yet and I'm still in shorts and sleeveless shirts and we have air conditioners on during the day. So the winter theme reminds me that it's winter...
Ok, I need a break... I'll get a coffee...
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Ok, I'm back...
4. Premium supporter....
I think that it's good that premium members are colored yellow because it's good publicity when users see that people are paying members. I noticed that moderators get red names, so there is no way to know if they're premium members. There should be another way to show that a person is a paying member, other than name color, so also paying moderators can be shown as premium members.
A suggestion can be to get discounts on software for premium members.
5. I speak 4 languages but I don't suggest to allow typing in other languages. They should always be translated.
6. Couldn't recognize the voice... but I hope you got to the store before they closed...
7. True, the site never went down, but I experience slow page loads on this site most of the time. (I have high speed X7)
8. Overall, meetings are a good idea. I enjoyed listening to the podcast. It was so interesting, that I almost started to voice an opinion but then realized that I'm not live...
Hope to join you at the next meeting.
Zvi Twersky